CBC Listen, August 11, 2023. Island News With Mitch Commier
"UPEI has apologized to two women who complained about sexual harassment 11 years ago. We'll hear from the head of a group called "Can't Buy My Silence" . Two women have been released from the terms of non-disclosure agreements they signed a decade ago."--Island News Summary
“The UPEI apology to the women] is a very important symbolic recognition that using NDA’s just makes you look bad now. The only thing worse than covering it up is being found to have covered it up. …The prohibition on talking to anybody is causing so much damage. In fact it is inflicting another level of trauma.”
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“I certainly think it’s a step in the right direction, and I think it would be an obvious step now for UPEI to say ‘and going forward we will no longer use NDA’s for sexual harassment, misconduct and discrimination’, which is what the legislation says, but I think that stepping up and saying that ‘as a University we want to encourage other universities and province where there is not now legislation…to do this proactively.”
--Julie Macfarlane, co-founder of Can’t Buy My Silence
